US3914329A - Oligomers of diisopropylbenzene - Google Patents

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US3914329A
US3914329A US491625A US49162574A US3914329A US 3914329 A US3914329 A US 3914329A US 491625 A US491625 A US 491625A US 49162574 A US49162574 A US 49162574A US 3914329 A US3914329 A US 3914329A
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  • This invention relates tooligomers of diisopropylbenzene and to a process for their manufacture by reacting a mixture containing mand p-diisopropylbenzene with an organic peroxide in the presence of an inorganic reducing agent.
  • Oligomers of diisopropylbenzene are'made use of as synergists in flameproofing thermoplastics with bromine compounds.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 3,457,204 describes styrene polymers which have been flameproofed in this manner. Hitherto, only oligomers of p-diisopropylbenzene have been used in industry. They are prepared by the oxidative condensation of p-diisopropylbenzene with organic peroxides'as described by V. V. Korshak et al. in Polymer Science USSR," 1, pp.
  • p-Diisopropylbenzene results'from the reaction of propene in the presence of Friedel-Crafts catalysts. It is contained in the alkylation inixture to an extent of about -40 percent by weight and must be separated from the m-isomer, which boils only 6C lower, by laborious fractional distillation.
  • This object is achieved by reacting v 100 parts of said mixture containing from.50 to 80 percent by weight of m-diisopropylbenzene and from 10 to 40 percent by weight of p-diisopropylbenzene with from 5 to 100 parts by weight of an organic peroxide compound at temperatures between 150 and 230C and in the presence of from 0.1 to 2 parts by weight of an inorganic reducing agent.
  • the Friedel Crafts reaction of benzene with propene is well known. It is described, for example, in Organikum, p. 302, 1965, published by VEB Verlag dermaschineen, für.
  • reaction mixture When the reaction mixture is worked up by distillation, a mixture is produced at from 200 to 210C which contains from to 80 percent and preferably from to percent of m-diisopropylbenzene, from 10 to 40 percent and preferably from 20 to 30 percent of p-diisopropylbenzene and from 5 to 15 percent of indefinite organic compounds.
  • this mixture is reacted with an organic peroxide compound in the presence of an inorganic reducing agent.
  • the reaction takes place at temperatures of from to 230C and preferably from to 190C.
  • a peroxide compound is used which dissociates into free radicals at these temperatures.
  • the halflife of the peroxide in this temperature range should be from 10 to 100 minutes.
  • Suitable peroxides are for example di-t-butyl peroxide, chlorobenzene peroxide, t-
  • butylphthalide peroxide t-butylphenylphthalide hydro- I peroxide, di-l-methylcyclohexyl peroxide and 2,5- dimethyl, 2,5-(di-t-butylperoxy)hexane.
  • the reaction may be carried out batchwise or continuously. It is advantageous to premix the peroxide with diisopropylbenzene before it is fed to the reaction vessel. This technique is described in detail in German Published Application 1,770,294. In order to obtain colorless oligomers, from 0.1 to 2 parts and preferably from 0.5 to 1.2 parts by weight of an inorganic reducing agent, which is preferably water-soluble, must be added for every 100 parts by weight of diisopropylbenzene mixture. It may be assumed that the components of the diisopropylbenzene mixture giving rise to discoloration accumulate during the reaction in the aqueous/alcoholic phase whichforms from the decomposition products of the peroxide.
  • the inorganic reducing agent is not miscible with the organic phase of the reaction mixture and thus does not react with the peroxide. Instead, it also passes into the aqueous/alcoholic phase, where it reacts with the unwanted components.
  • useful reducing agents are phosphorous acid, sulfurous acid, sodium hydroborate, sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate, Raney nickel, copper chromite, aluminum powder and cadmium grit.
  • the resulting oligomers of diisopropylbenzene contain from 55 to 85 percent by weight of m-diisopropylbenzene units and from 15 to 45 percent by weight of p-diisopropylbenzene units. .Their average degree of polymerization is from 3 to 30 and preferably from 4 to'l0. They are colorless homogeneous substances of the consistency of honey and show good solubility in organic solvents such as styrene or butyl stearate and are thus readily metered in this form in the manufacture of flameproofed shaped articles.
  • the oligomers may be used as synergists in flameproofing thermoplastics containing organic bromine compounds.
  • the flameproofed compositions contain from 0.1 to 5 percent and preferably from 0.5 to 3 percent by weight of bromine and additionally'from 0.1 to 5 percent and preferably from 0.02 to 2 percent by weight of the diisopropylbenzene oligomers.
  • the bromine compounds themselves should contain more than 40 percent by weight of bromine. Highly suitable are, for example, hexabromocyclododecane, octabromohexadecane and brominated rubbers and also bromination products of diphenyl or its derivatives.
  • Suitable polyolefins are polyethylene and polypropylene and suitable styrene polymers are homopolystyrene, impactresistant polystyrene and copolymers of styrene with, say, a-methylstyrene, acrylonitrile, methyl methacrylate and acrylates.
  • Particularly significant are molding compositions containing expanding agents for the preparation of self-extinguishing foamed articles.
  • EXAMPLE 1 a 440 parts of a diisopropylbenzene mixture containing 60 percent of meta-isomer and 30 percent of paraisomer are heated at 180C. There are then added, with stirring over 2 hours, a further 60 parts of the diisopropylbenzene mixture together with 300 parts of di-tbutyl peroxide and 5 parts of phosphorous acid. Following a reaction time of 1 hour at C, the volatile components are distilled off at an internal temperature of 150C and a pressure of 2 mm Hg.
  • the residue consists of 360 parts of a white-semisolid composition having a viscosity at 100C of 3,500 centipoise and having a degree of polymerization of from about 5 to 7 as determined by infrared assessment via the ratio of intact isopropyl groups to tetramethylethane groups.
  • a process for the manufacture of oligomers of diisopropylbenzene wherein 100 parts of a mixture obtained from the Friedel Crafts reaction of benzene with propene and containing from 50 to 80 percent of m-diisopropylbenzene and from 10 to 40 percent by weight of p-diisopropylbenzene are reacted with from .5 to 100 parts by weight of an organic peroxide compound at temperatures of from 130 to 230C and in the presence of from 0.1 to 2 parts by weight of an inorganic reducing agent.
  • Colorless oligomers of diisopropylbenzene having an average degree of polymerization of from 3 to 30 and containing from 55 to 85 percent by weight of m-diisopropylbenzene units and from 15 to percent by weight of p-diisopropylbenzene 'units.

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